Lot 183
SIDEBOTHAM Overland Mail-A Postal Historical Study

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SIDEBOTTOM, John, K The Overland Mail-A Postal Historical Study of the Mail Route to India

"Offered for sale by Ian & Yvonne Halford of 'Quathlamba Books', for more information please contact them via email at y.halford@btinternet.com."

The Overland Mail- A Postal Historical Study of the route to India.

Thomas Fletcher Waghorn, Lieut., R.N., was the pioneer of the  Overland Mail Route to India via Cairo and Suez.

The story of his adventures and trials is full of the romance of the period when no difficulty but death could stop such an Englishman from achieving his goal.

Today his name is not known to many, but a hundred and seventy years ago it was that of a public hero of whom was written: " A spirit less bold or indefatigable would have been content with being the first to discover one Overland route; it is the singular fortune of Lieut. Waghorn to have shewn the feasibility of two.."

The great liners which nose their way through the Suez Canal and the planes that carry the air-mail to India twice a week are the current evidence of Waghorn's forgotten courage and perseverance.

Hardback with pale blue boards and clipped dustcover. Half Title, Frontispiece, Title, Dedication, Contents, Appendices, Maps and Cachet Types, Illustrations & Vignettes, Preface, Maps. xii plus 174 pages text and index. Very litlle offset to rear endpaper.